FX

I have a basic Vestax PMC 05 III mixer and 2 Vestax PDX 2000 mkII TT's. Any recommendations on a good fx box? I am awhile away from being able to afford serato or traktor so I am guessing only hardware suggestions for now...

Go to your local pawn shop and look for guitar effects. They'll be cheap as hell and you can run your TT Mixer through it. Get some WAH, distortion, reverb, whatever

Pardon the ignorance nedden but is there any product that has most of the above effects in one box. I don't mind a higher price but space is at a premium in my house Also thanks for the totality of the help you and others have given me I almost got the nuts and bolts of my mpc 500 figured out in time for school, and it would have taken 3 times as long without the help. I can't wait to bang out beats on the train home!

A lot of guitar effects are all in one like this one: http://www.amptone.com/bossgt5.htm and I think they're a better deal than DJ marketed effects.
If you can find a pawn shop that has things like this, you can get a good deal.
It might be hard to use this live, but if you're doing studio work (making beats) you can get a lot of different sounds on your samples with a minute of parameter adjusting once you know what they all mean.

Plus if it has a pedal like that one you can use it for frequency sweeps (wah), real time volume/bass/treble adjust and more. It's assignable, in other words.

korg kaospad...

older lexicon, roland and yamaha reverb/effects units. cheap and useful.

i have the same mixer , i use a EF-303 works great for me,plus it has a step modulator, but try the KOAS PAD thats pretty good or the pioneer one dont remeber the name of it, but it's pretty good.

thanks guys

i bought a Kaoss Mini for like $150 and the thing is badass. Will upgrade to the KP3 eventually but for the price this thing more than does the job...

That KP3 looks like its the one to me too man Money willing I am gonna grab that and Serato or Traktor 3 eventually.

I am actually going to recommend the SP404. It has awesome effects on it, and you can sample and make beats. It is a great tool for a DJ. You can program drum loops, do tons of effects, samples, etc.... And its only $400 new.